Is Foley married? Just curious.

[helderheid]

[Eric J in MN]

1. He's single.

http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=CNIP8121

[helderheid]

2. thanks! I find this rich:

" Mr. Speaker, as Co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and author of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and the Internet Safety Act contained in this bill, I rise to offer my strong support for the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act and urge my colleagues to vote for it."

http://www.vote-smart.org/speech_detail.php?speech_id=195177&keyword=&phrase=&contain=

[LongTomH]

4. Total Repub hypocrisy!

Do you think the Repukes would hesitate a second to accuse an unmarried Democratic candidate of homosexuality? Actually, I think one of Jerry Brown's opponents did make some accusations, in a very crude manner.

[MADem]

3. Single single, but the ladies just don't tingle....NT

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. He's what they used to call a "confirmed bachelor"

Otherwise known as an old queen.

[Ksec]

6. Young single and ready to mingle...online with your child...nt

[papau]

7. One of Boston's papers wrote him up a while back -and no- he isn't married

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/editorial/documents/02919063.htm

Being gay in the GOP
Congressman Mark Foley: A model of political hypocrisy and personal cowardice

<snip>But then, that would only work if the 48-year-old congressman were heterosexual. Which he is not. Foley is gay. It’s one of those open secrets that’s more open than secret. It first came up during his initial run for Congress in 1994. A right-wing opponent in the GOP primary sent out a mailing saying that Foley was gay. Foley answered the accusation — and in this context, it was an accusation — by telling the media: "I like women."

Two years later, after Foley voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Advocate outed him along with another closeted lawmaker, Congressman Jim Kolbe, who’d voted in favor of the anti-gay measure. Of Foley, Advocate reporter J. Jennings Moss wrote: "In interviews for this story, several people close to the 41-year-old from West Palm Beach described him as a gay man, although one also said he dated women." The magazine also spoke with former Navy lieutenant Tracy Thorne, who came out on national television during the gays-in-the-military debate. Thorne knew Foley because Thorne’s father was one of Foley’s staunchest supporters, dating back to Foley’s time in the Florida state legislature. Thorne matter-of-factly told the Advocate: "Mark Foley has spent his entire life in the closet."<snip>

Shortly after Norman’s (New York Time's) column appeared, the Washington Blade, a Washington, DC–based paper that covers gay issues, followed up the story. Sensing the beginnings of a media frenzy, Foley called a press conference last week to address the rumors. "I believe everyone’s talking about it," Foley said, according to the Miami Herald. "This is a proactive attempt to talk with you all relative to the chatter that’s going on behind the scenes."

That’s when Foley said the speculation about his sexuality was "revolting and unforgivable." Here’s what’s revolting and unforgivable: Mark Foley’s calculated political decision to refuse to discuss his homosexuality in order to better present himself to the hateful right-wingers who dominate GOP politics. Here’s what’s revolting and unforgivable: Mark Foley’s silence about his homosexuality even as US Senator Rick Santorum, the third-ranking senator in the GOP, has compared homosexuality to incest and bestiality. Here’s what’s revolting and unforgivable: Mark Foley’s description of speculation about his sexuality as "revolting and unforgivable" in order to make himself palatable to voters from the only state in the nation that bans gay and lesbian people like Mark Foley from adopting children.<snip>

There is nothing shameful in being gay or lesbian. That Mark Foley thinks there is, and that he can exploit this by bullying reporters who ask him legitimate questions about his sexuality, is revolting. And unforgivable.

[pnwmom]

8. I read somewhere that he was basically outed in his district

some time ago, and that afterwards he had even brought a man with him to some Repub events.

So he wasn't very far inside the closet any more.